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I have been inactive with most of the merchants that left, but a couple of good ones are now gone.
They also seem to have fewer new merchants listed daily on the account manager home page.
I guess as long as they signup more new merchants than they lose, they will be ok, but this makes me a little nervous about them.
I see this as a positive move and in the affiliate's best interest in the long run, providing us a more stable crop of merchant programs. I believe there's a minimum monthly merchant payout to CJ now, this will surely induce merchants to strengthen the business plan and be more mindful of conversions before they unveil it to affiliates because it will have to hit the ground running to cover costs. Also, this adds a little bit more to the maintenance costs of merchants who are really running branding campaigns disguised as CPA.
I agree, I guess there is reason for the correlation of most dropped merchants being ones I wasn't pushing yet/anymore.
However, I got a little concerned about a couple of them, being stable/performing merchants, but I guess that is normal at any time.
You are right, this is a good move to eliminate some of the "bad seeds," but some of the merchants would offer good campaigns from time to time, and be relatively dormant in-between. This will cut many of them out, but understandably so from CJ's profitability perspective.
